Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

Google Inc. has hit a new milestone as its YouTube video hosting service passed 1 billion videos with automatic captions. The automatic captioning service was launched in December 2009 as a way to ...

Canvas Studio uses automated speech recognition (ASR) technology to make automatic captions available for video content. While automatically generated captions are a great starting point, it is ...

Zoom is bringing automatic closed captioning to all free accounts starting this fall. In a blog post, the video conferencing company described the rollout as part of a larger push for accessibility on ...

Live Caption, Google’s automatic captioning system first introduced at its I/O developer conference this May, is now officially available, alongside the launch of the new Pixel 4. But unlike some of ...

Instagram's new auto-captioning feature will automatically censor some words, but it's easy to get around. Credit: Instagram Instagram has just rolled out a new automatic captioning feature for ...

Twitter is taking another step toward becoming more accessible. On Tuesday, the company began rolling out automatic captions for videos. The feature is available on Android, iOS and its web client. On ...

Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. You can ...